For entrepreneurs
Networking for entrepreneurs, built around a small number of right people
Most networking asks you to meet more people. That works until your diary is the constraint, which for anyone running a business is almost immediately. GrowthSync is built the other way round: fewer people, chosen on whether there is a commercial reason to talk.
The usual advice is to get yourself in front of more people. It is not wrong, it just stops working quickly. A founder has a fixed number of hours and every extra conversation costs one of them, so past a certain point the question is not how to meet more people. It is how to spend the conversations you have on the ones that could go somewhere.
Five a day, on purpose
A free account can open five sync requests a day. Premium raises that to 25 and Elite removes the limit, but the free number is the one worth explaining, because it is not a nag to upgrade. It is the product telling you to choose.
Five forces you to read the profile. It is the difference between sending the same message to two hundred people and picking the handful where you could say, in one line, why you are getting in touch. The second thing gets answered.
Chosen on what you do, not who you know
Your profile says what your business does and what you are looking for. Discover shows you one member at a time with a score out of 100 and a label such as Ideal Match or Low Match, and you swipe right to open a request or left to skip.
The heaviest part of that score by some distance is whether one side offers what the other side says it is looking for, checked in both directions. Shared goals, shared markets, location, industry and business stage come after it. A vague overlap scores close to nothing on purpose, because a weak reason to talk is the thing that wastes an hour. Every member sees the same score for the same person whatever they pay, so the number is not something you can buy your way up.
Nobody can message you until you have both said yes, so the inbox stays short and the requests that arrive have already been aimed at you deliberately.
The parts that work when you are new
Communities are grouped by industry and interest, and members on every plan including free can join, post and comment. Posting needs a verified account and a verified phone number. It is the difference between asking your own industry a question and asking the internet.
Events are the other one. Any signed-in member can host, and people find events by what they are about: the title, description, category, city and venue, 17 categories, a city or a distance from where they are, and filters for date, free, online and in person. Filling a room does not depend on having an audience, which is the usual reason a new member cannot host anything anywhere else. Attending is free on every plan.
A record that builds while you use it
Meetings can be marked complete, and that feeds a reputation score on your profile. People who attend your events are asked to review them. You can see who has looked at your profile. None of that is a vanity number: it is what the next person reads when they are deciding whether to say yes to you.
If you want the whole product rather than the approach, read what the app actually does, or how members meet business partners.
Common questions
What is the best way for entrepreneurs to network?
Start from what you need rather than from who is in the room. Say plainly what your business does and what you are looking for, meet a small number of people where there is a real reason to talk, and follow up with the few worth keeping. Volume is the thing that stops working first, because your diary runs out long before the contacts do.
How many people can I reach out to on GrowthSync?
Five a day on a free account, 25 on Premium, and no limit on Elite. The free number is deliberately small: it makes you choose, which is the behaviour the rest of the product is built around.
Do I need a following to get anything out of it?
No, and there is no follower system to build. Discovery works on what your profile says your business does and what you are looking for, and events are found by what they are about rather than by who is hosting them.
How do I know somebody is worth talking to before I message them?
Every member carries a match score out of 100 with a plain label, worked out mainly from whether one of you offers what the other is looking for. You can also see the meetings they have completed and the reviews they have picked up, which is a record built from what they have actually done on the platform.
Is GrowthSync only for startup founders?
No. It is for entrepreneurs, founders and business owners generally, including people running established businesses who want suppliers, partners, staff or clients rather than investment.
Your next client is already a member. You just have not met yet.
Joining is free, your profile takes a few minutes, and you can be talking to someone useful today.